i hate real estate

So everyone knows that this is the slowest market in...what, twenty years? It's a buyers' market, they say.

Sure.

So why is it that, after we made one offer to the only builder in town who apparently has no intention of budging on his asking price, we now made an offer today to a couple who vastly underpriced their home, have decided they can get more, and now want to take their house off the market and price it at $17,000 higher?

In other words, HOW ARE WE IN A POSSIBLE BIDDING WAR IN THE WORST HOUSING MARKET EVER???? How is this possible???

The house is great. It's worth the higher price, actually. Beloved, however, is super pissed about the fact that we might have to offer more, and I'm not sure I can convince him to get over his annoyance and look at the bigger picture.

Once again, I'll ask for your prayers today - mostly for Beloved and I. God, give us the patience with each other to do this well.

By the way, the agent who is working with couple on house #2 is, coincidentally (?), the same agent as house #1.

So maybe a few prayers that the Lord would smite him. Just a little bit. Maybe one boil someplace.

Kidding.

Sort of.